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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Several speakers expressed outrage over kindergarten standards that described Indigenous people as America’s first “immigrants” from Asia.

“This is our home. We are not immigrants,” said Aaron Winston, a board member for the Virginia Tribal Education Consortium. “No one is trying to say the English didn’t come from England or the Chinese didn’t come from China. Why are you telling us that now we come from somewhere else?”

Superintendent Balow later apologized in an interview.

“It was wrong to label them as immigrants in the standards document and we will make sure that is corrected,” Balow said.[/quote]

Are they saying they didn't come from Asia over a land bridge?
There is a case that Vikings might have arrived first.[/quote]

Their ancestors migrated here 30,000 years ago.

They’re indigenous. 
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I haven't read the curriculum, are the talking about the first American as immigrants in terms of early human migration patterns (which I would support) or as a way to equate their claim to being a native to any other American's claim on the term (which would be pretty awful) [/quote]

The inaccurate use of the politically-loaded word "immigrant" is "othering" indigenous people.

That's not the terminology for migrations that happened 30,000 years ago. 
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Conversely, the word indigenous is othering as well.[/quote]

But it’s accurate and indicates that these were the people of the Americas for many millennia before any Europeans, including Vikings, came and killed/oppressed them. Conflating them with immigrants minimizes the genocide. It’s an intentional, politically-motivated misnomer.

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Yes and no? The archaelogical and genetic evidence is now very clear over the last couple of years that the original "Native Americans" from Beringia eliminated a pre-existing population. Genocide was complete in North America,  but a very small percentage of the South American population derives from the earlier people, or peoples.

A second wave included the Navajo and more northerly Na Dene speakers.

The third wave's most successful tribal group was the Inuit, who finished wiping out the Dorset as late as the 1400s; the Vikings actually predate Inuit colonization of that part of North America. Replacement here was total; there's no sign of Dorset genes among the Inuit, and no indication that any were able to escape to the south.
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Thank you. There’s no such thing, technically, as “indigenous people” anywhere but Africa, where humans evolved. Everyone on every other continent came there at some point. I’m not sure why facts need to be politically contentious. None of this excuses genocide or killing people & taking their land. [/quote]

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